Posts by collery

In an article about HIV in Botswana, Ntibinyane Ntib remarks on something I have always found hard to understand about the virus in high prevalence African countries; the issue of families and of several members…

English premier David Cameron played the homosexuality card to draw attention to his current flavor of British aid to Africa, but presumably to draw attention away from the fact that the actual amount of aid…

Nicholas Kristof really knows how to pack the largest amount of conservatism into the one article. The presumptuousness of the title continues throughout the article, as well: ‘The Birth Control Solution’. Kristof holds the rather naive…

A paper by Egilman, Bird, Mora and Druar puts into perspective some of the most salient barriers to progress in reducing HIV transmission, especially in countries where rates are highest. The very title of the paper…

When patients are found to have been exposed to HIV or other viruses as a result of the care they received, so called ‘nosocomial’ infections, they are usually recalled for testing and treatment, as required. This…

When environmentalist reactionaries like Bjorn Lomborg use words such as ‘rethink’, I become suspicious. For him, rethinking climate change was to sell consultancy to some of the biggest contributors to global warming. So when he…

The belief that generalized HIV epidemics, such as those found in some sub-Saharan African countries, originate from and are driven by extremely high levels of ‘unsafe’ sexual behavior has always been undermined by a number…